Alarm-clock : 6 AM.
Snooze 1.
Snooze 2.
I put a sweater on.
shorts.
my sweater is upside down. let me start again.
6:18AM, I pick my zoom up.
6:22AM, I get on my bike and go straight to the front door of the park.
the weather is cool.
6:29AM, I get into the park.

On the fourth day, we went behind the walls of a prison, the Casa Circondariale di Sollicciano. We met the Orkestra Ristretta and its leader Massimo Altomare.

The Orkestra Ristretta began in 2007, Tempo Reale started to administratively help in 2013.

Massimo created a first band of twelve musicians at the heart of this building where 700 prisoners live (including 500 born abroad). They play hits but also original compositions.

Since then, he organizes auditions and starts the band again every year depending on the people still or newly imprisoned. During those auditions, he seeks after “men with a good ear, already musicians or not, with a good ear for music” as he says.

The Orkestra Ristretta is strongly rooted in rock for sure. But as men sing in their own language and with (spoken and sang) accents, the band’s style is a patchwork of rap, italian music, latina music, Northern and West Africa music … On stage you can see the drummer, the percussionist playing Conga, the two guitarists, the keyboarder and some singers/rappers exchanging verses.